ASUS Transformer... Not an IPad though!

Has anybody been keeping tabs on ASUS and what they are doing to break into the tablet market? Head over to YouTube and type in "ASUS transformer".
I don't want to take any sunlight away from the iPad because I own an iPad 2 and I'm loving it! Best buy even has it on their site for 399.99. Release for mid April supposedly.

Just thought I would share it with everybody, I will definitely want to put my hands on it before pulling the trigger. ASUS has been hit and miss with the build quality on past laptops. The tablet looks a bit on the big size as well, the surrounding bezel looks huge.

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It's just a honeycomb tablet with a removable keyboard, though and seems more of a gimmick than a real breakthrough.
I'll stick with my iPad, thanks and if I ever feel the need to turn it into a notebook, I'll get one of these

This may attract some attention, but I'm amazed the put in a quality IPS screen yet drop in a hard drive over flash storage? Ouch. Hate to see that 4200 RPM drive perform.

3.0 is a solid platform for tablets offering some very usable advantages for me, but the iPad 1 and 2 are very polished/complete products that I don't see $100 changing anyones mind from the baseline iPad 2 to this tablet. Asus stripped out way to much and made to many bad choices imo to take away business. The best chance for Honeycomb to gain some traction is Moto dropping a high quality IPS screen in the Xoom 2. That is my only major issue with the current Xoom.

It's a 16GB SSD in there, not a hard drive. But what is not being read very carefully is the fine print. That $499 price point is dependent upon country and other factors. Apparently, it's already available in Taiwan, but no one seems to really be giving it to much hype.

As for battery life, these are claimed times based of what Asus did to get them. in other words, brightness set to near low and maybe some lite email and web surfing. flash was not enabled.

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